Changes

There is a buddhist saying that life is static, ever changing. The past four months have been a weird rollercoaster of events from super fun highs to devestating lows. I had my last rabies vaccine injection this past Tuesday, it went surpisingly smoothly and quick, not much fanfare . I have been injected over the past two weeks about 17 times - she asked me if I'd like a flu shot and I very quickly said NO - we both cracked up laughing, out the door I went, done. The bites on my lower right leg are healing up well  - the one on my thigh which was the worst is taking it's time - it's very annoying. I had contacted and sent pictures to the Oregon Wildlife and Fishing to see what they thought - the concensus was a raccoon, a coyote or another dog, but leaning towards the raccoon. The dog one was interesting but whatever it was it didn't make any noise at all and I don't think Rueben would have gone after another dog that aggressively. Not to mention we've never seen one loose dog in the year and a half we've lived here, so one hanging out under the tree next to the house  at 4:30am would be super odd.  I guess I'll never know for sure. 

I picked up Rueben's ashes today - cried of course. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that four months ago I had two silly,lively dogs - eating cheese, playing with each other and hogging the bed - to nothing. The silence here is deafening some days - the hardest part is coming home to just opening the door - no joyful dancing, no rush to go out, nothing. We are starting to look for breeders and I've sent a few emails inquiring but we're going slow. Grief can cloud judgement and I don't want to accidently end up with two irish wolfhounds because that was what was available now and regret it later.

 I miss them both so much. 

We got the bill from the ER - wow. Super glad I have good insurance now! My co-pay was $200 and I have to pay a part of my deductible so the whole thing was $450 which sounds like a lot until you see the bill was over $10,000 - Jeezy pete!! My insurance back in PA would have probably covered the 8 dollars and  65 cents so I'm very grateful.  Ten grand - and  that doesn't even include the 3 following  injections. The The dogs get a booster every year and I think it's 30 bucks, it's crazy how much everything costs. But I'm done and that's the important thing. 

I've been knitting a lot lately, I bought myself a Namaste Train Case in red from Jimmy Bean Wool - they're on clearance for the weirdest of reasons and I really want to write to them to ask but not sure if it would be PC. They are discontinuing the Namaste knitting bag line because - and forgive me if I'm being racially insensitive - the word "namaste" is offensive to some people???? The product line has been around for over 30 years and I cannot figure out how the word is offending people, as far as I know it's hindi for "peace" - I don't know either. Anyone figures it out PM me - but I'm keeping an eye on the website and might order one or two more bags before they are all off the market. I've been knitting up socks and trying out different needles which is fun. A friend of mine gifted me with a set of Neko needles which are like double points but bent in the middle - they worked great. Now I'm trying out Addi Flips which have a short flexible cable in the middle, they are interesting - the size is smaller than I'm used to so hopefully the socks will come out. 

Friday we went to Canon beach with Kim and Steve, we'd never been before. We went to Ecola park first to see the cliffs and the lighthouse. The light house is called Terrible Tilly, no one can get to it! It was shut down like ten years after it was built because it's too dangerous to man, a private concern bought it and now it's full of creamation ashes. Weird! After we went to Canon beach, then out to lunch, then walked around. For east coasters it reminded me very much of East Hampton - shopwise and pricewise!! I did find a yarn shop, Kim was teasing that I can smell yarn and I didn't buy anything. Since I'm trying to knit up the sock yarn I have I cannot even make myself add to the pile, but it's always fun to look. It was such a lovely day and we had a great time. David continues to work on the house, it has been shown twice and it's not on the market yet so keep your fingers crossed! I so want to be done with that too.